Hoping to muse from time to time about privacy, women in technology and on boards, the "sharing" economy (including my experiences renting out to homes), online dating industry and who knows what else might come up.

February 2013

June 12, 2006

Commander in Chief

Maddening! NY Times on Sunday offered plenty of food for thought. One of the most provacative was an article in FASHION AND STYLE - no less - titled Ascent of the Woman - pondering the question of whether we're ready for a female president, contemplating Geena Davis in Commander in Chief and speculating about Hilary. Made some good points, such as that other countries have had woman premiers and presidents, but not the US. Some speculate its the cowboy image (did that go out with Brokeback Mountain? Could we be so lucky?). Most important point, that applies to both politics and business, especially technology, is that to have women emerge as leaders, they have to be in the pipeline. Hell yes. All the more reason to work harder at advancing ourselves and supporting others.

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Hi Fran, great site! I now realise I need a new list of links on my blog - I think I will call it BlogHer QuickLinks. I am going to hunt down that article now, sounds very interesting. The fact that the Irish had a woman head of state so early is pretty astounding - hardly a feminised country really. And Australia is miles behind the rest of the world on this. I'll be 100 when a woman is PM here (that's giving us 54 years...)